Marina's Podcast Recommendations

marina ↓

Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:05 pm

Here's a thread I wanted to start for a while with interesting podcasts episodes that I've heard.

Here is a Freakonomics episode about how our political system is failing us by creating a duopoly and forcing us to choose between two companies/organizations/parties that only care about enriching themselves and not about providing value to the people they serve. This also explores steps that would help us change the system.

http://freakonomics.com/podcas.....stry/

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Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:08 pm

Here is a super interesting This American Life episode about a girl kidnapped in America and forced to live with a fundamentalist family in Pakistan and how the book Little Women helped her through.

The episode overall looks at words and prayers, including kaddish.

https://www.thisamericanlife.o.....words

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Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:11 pm

Here's a Radiolab episode about forced sterilization in America today. So interesting! Also this was part of a very interesting series on the history of IQ.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/g-unfit

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Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:11 pm

allcuteonesrtak wrote:

I'll add my recommendation:
Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell

thanks can you add a link? Awesome!

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Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:16 pm

Here is an Intimate Judaism episode about couples who disagree about religion and how it affects their intimacy https://www.intimatejudaism.co.....e-13/

seeker

Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:17 pm

Thank you! Always looking for specific recommendations. I enjoyed several episodes of Hidden Brain. Freakonomics is also a favorite of mine.

daagahminayin

Sun, Aug 11 2019, 11:34 pm

The Truth Podcast has some amazing audio drama pieces. Here’s a really good one:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/.....60738

Other great podcasts to look up: Heavyweight and Everything is Alive.

smss ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2019, 12:47 am

I heard about this one from Rachel Tuchman, a therapist, on Instagram. It's hard to listen to in many places but I felt like it was a very important listen as a mother of a girl. It's about how a sports doctor got away with s-xually abusing hundreds of girls for years and years, sometimes even while their parents were in the room.

https://open.spotify.com/show/.....N9zrQ

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Mon, Aug 12 2019, 6:08 pm

smss wrote:

Yep I heard that one, so awful.

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Mon, Aug 12 2019, 6:09 pm

Here is a Radiolab about who is responsible to review inappropriate FB posts.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/st.....Sij4g

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Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:07 pm

Here is an interesting one from Dear Sugars about consent. At first I found it a bit annoying and over the top, but here an idea they said that made me really think: Women in our society are expected to be passive and resistant to 5ex and, men, therefore, are encouraged to be assertive and even aggressive and that's a big part of how rape culture works. If we encourage women to be enthusiastic and active participants and teach men that anything less than that means NO, we will change the culture. In other words, women who are playing hard to get or being coy or whatever, those women should be refused 5ex categorically. 5ex should only take place if both parties are not just consenting, but active and enthusiastic participants. I found this to be an interesting and provocative concept.

https://www.wbur.org/dearsugar.....t-one

rgr

Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:13 pm

Not the recommendation you are looking for but I just binged the entire set of Harry Potter books on Google podcasts read by Jim Dale.

It's awesome

https://podcasts.google.com?fe.....ueG1s

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Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:17 pm

rgr wrote:

Not the recommendation you are looking for but I just binged the entire set of Harry Potter books on Google podcasts read by Jim Dale.

It's awesome

https://podcasts.google.com?fe.....ueG1s

that sounds great for a car trip!

↑ marina ↓

Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:18 pm

Here is an episode about how difficult it is to come to America, even when you won the green card lottery. https://www.thisamericanlife.o.....icket

↑ allcuteonesrtak

Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:28 pm

marina wrote:

thanks can you add a link? Awesome!

I'm not sure if this is the correct link. I listen to it on Spotify.

There's a really good episode called the Tortoise and the Hare about the LSAT & law school admissions.. I found it very interesting

SleepingBeauty ↓

Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:35 pm

marina wrote:

Yep I heard that one, so awful.

I can't listen to this, due to my filter. But I would really like to know what she said. Could you summarize please?

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Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:40 pm

SleepingBeauty wrote:

I can't listen to this, due to my filter. But I would really like to know what she said. Could you summarize please?

it was about Larry Nassar, a famous physician for the USA Gymnastics team. Under the guise of pelvic floor therapy, he assaulted many gymnasts for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Nassar

↑ marina ↓

Tue, Aug 13 2019, 12:45 pm

SleepingBeauty wrote:

Thank you!
And how did he get away with that with parents present??

I remember from the podcast that the mother's chair would be at an angle where she could not see exactly what he was doing with his hands. And he would just pretend this was pelvic floor therapy. Because he was so well trusted and even loved, many people never even questioned why a girl would need pelvic floor therapy for a neck injury, for example.

I remember when listening to it that I kept thinking about how much trust people give authority figures, trust that is sometimes not warranted at all.